Orchestra Tech: National ConferenceOctober 10 - 14, 2001 / New York City

Composer-Presenters &
Other Delegates

Mark
Applebaum

Mark
Applebaum received his Ph.D. from the University of California at
San Diego where he studied principally with Brian Ferneyhough. His
solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, electro-acoustic, and electronic
work has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and
Asia with notable premieres at the Darmstadt summer sessions. He has
received commissions from Betty Freeman, the Merce Cunningham Dance
Company, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Zeitgeist, MANUFACTURE, the
Jerome Foundation, and the American Composers Forum, among others. He
is the recipient of the 1997 Stephen Albert Award, administered by
the American Music Center.

Mr. Applebaum
is also active as a jazz pianist and builder of sound-sculptures. His
music can be heard on the Innova label. Mr. Applebaum has taught at
UCSD and served as the Dayton-Hudson Visiting Artist at Carleton
College. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and
Theory at Stanford University.

Robert
Beaser

Robert Beaser
is often cited as a leader of the "New Tonalists" and
through a wide range of media has firmly established his own voice as
a synthesis of Western tradition and American vernacular. Beaser has
been commissioned with regularity by many major orchestras and
ensembles throughout the world including, most recently, the New York
Philharmonic (150th Anniversary), the Chicago Symphony (Centennial
Commission), the American Composers Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony
and Minnesota Orchestra. His music has been performed frequently by
such renowned artists as Renee Fleming, Paula Robison, Dennis Russell
Davies, James Galway, Dawn Upshaw, Eliot Fisk, Lauren Flanigan,
Leonard Slatkin and David Zinman.

Beaser has
been the recipient of a Grammy Award nomination for "Best
Classical Composition" for his widely heard Mountain Songs, the
Prix de Rome, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, and an Academy
Award in music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His
opera The Food of Love, commissioned by New York City Opera,
Glimmerglass Opera and WNET with a libretto by the playwright
Terrence McNally, was premiered in 1999 as part of the triptych
Central Park to international critical acclaim. It was recently
broadcast on PBS's Great Performances series throughout the United
States and was nominated for an Emmy Award in July 2000. In January
2001, Beaser's The Heavenly Feast received its European Premiere at
the Silvestergala Concert in the Brucknerhaus, with the Bruckner
Orchestra Linz Austria. Beaser's music has been recorded for ARGO,
New World, Musicmasters and EMI-Electrola labels.

Beaser holds a
doctorate from the Yale School of Music and is chairman of the
composition department at The Juilliard School. He was recently named
artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra in New York City.

Edmund
J.
Campion

Edmund Campion
is the Composer-in-Residence at the Center for New Music and Audio
Technologies. He was born in Dallas Texas in 1957. He received his
Doctorate degree in composition at Columbia University and attended
the Paris Conservatory where he worked with composer Gérard
Grisey. In 1993 he was selected by the IRCAM reading panel to pursue
the "Cursus de compositiom" and was eventually commissioned
by IRCAM to produce a large scale work for interactive electronics
and midi-grand piano.

Since 1996,
Mr. Campion has held a post as Assistant Professor of Composition at
the University of Berkeley in California where he also serves as the
Composer in Residence at The Center for New Music and
AudioTechnologies (CNMAT). Recent projects include a Radio France
Commission l'Autre and the full-scale ballet Playback (commissioned
by IRCAM and the Socitété des Auteurs et Compositeurs
Dramatiques). Mr. Campion's other prizes and honors include: the Rome
Prize, the Nadia Boulanger Award, the Paul Fromm Award at Tanglewood,
a Charles Ives Award given by the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, and a Fulbright scholarship to study in France. Daniel
Ciampolini of the Ensemble Intercontemporain will premiere a new work
for vibraphone and piano in November of 2000 at the Centre Pompidou
in Paris.

Carlos
Carrillo

Carlos Carrillo has been the recipient of the Aaron Copland Award,
the Nitzsche Prize from the University of Pennsylvania, the John Day
Jackson Prize from Yale University and the Charles Ives Scholarship
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He holds a doctorate
degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as
a masters degree in composition from Yale University and a
bachelors degree in composition from the Eastman School of
Music. Mr. Carillo is ACO's Van Lier Fellowship Composer for 2001-02.

Perry
Cook

Perry Cook has served as technical director for the Center for
Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and has worked in the areas
of DSP, image compression, music synthesis and speech processing for
NeXT, Media Vision and other companies.

He is assistant professor of computer science with a joint
appointment in music at Princeton University, where he researches
human computer interfaces for the control of sound and music in real
time, physical modeling of sound production, auditory display and
immersive sound environments.

Cook holds master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering
from Stanford University, a BSEE from the University of Missouri
Engineering School and a bachelor's degree in music from the
University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music.

Ricardo
Dal Farra

Ricardo Dal
Farra was born in 1957 and is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
has worked as the Director for musical productions at the ORT
Technical School, Coordinator for the National Multimedia
Communication program at INETØNational Ministry of Culture and
Education of Argentina. Mr. Dal Farra has also severed as Professor
in Acoustics and Electronic Music at the National Conservatory of
Music, the Municipal Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires, and
Professor in Multimedia and Recording Arts at IMD, where he is also
the Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio.

Mr. Dal Farra
is also an active live electronic music performer and multimedia
artist. He is the Director of a radio series devoted to
electroacoustic/computer music since 1988 at the Municipal Radio of
Buenos Aires (Electromúsica) and the National Radio of
Argentina (Música y Tecnología). He has been the
International Co-Editor of Leonardo Music Journal since 1995, and is
a member of the board of Advisory Editors of Journal of New Music
Research. He has also been a representative for Argentina at the
International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (UNESCO).

Mario
Davidovsky

Mario
Davidovsky is most widely recognized for his integration of
electronic media with conventional instruments in works such as his
series of pieces titled Synchronism (1963-74) for various instruments
and tape. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for Synchronism 6
for piano and tape.

Born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, in 1934, Davidovsky's early composition studies
were with Guillermo Graetzer. Graduating from the University of
Buenos Aires, Davidovsky came to the United States in 1958 to
participate in the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood with a
specific interest in electronic music. At Tanglewood he worked with
Aaron Copland and, from Milton Babbitt, learned of the forthcoming
electronic music studio at Columbia University.

In 1960
Davidovsky took up permanent residence in New York City and studied
with Babbitt at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in
1960. From 1961 to 1963 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at Columbia
University. He became director of the Electronic Music Center at
Columbia in 1981, a post he kept until 1995, when he began teaching
at Harvard.

Paul
Lustig Dunkel

Conductor Paul
Lustig Dunkel has served as music director and conductor of the
Westchester Philharmonic since its founding in 1983. He and the
orchestra were the recipients of the 2000 Leonard Bernstein Award for
Educational Programming from the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers and the American Symphony Orchestra League for
excellence and innovation in music education. "Exploring New
Worlds: Music of the Americas" and its ground-breaking program
of student commissioning of a new work by a young composer was
featured on "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS and
recognized by the Westchester Arts Council with a 2001 Award.

Together with
Dennis Russell Davies, Francis Thorne and Nicholas Roussakis, Dunkel
founded the American Composers Orchestra in 1978. Until he stepped
down in 2000, Dunkel was instrumental in elevating the ensemble to
its position as a leader in American music. He served as orchestra
manager and principal flutist until he was appointed resident
conductor in 1989. His recordings with ACO for CRI and New World
Records have received wide critical acclaim, and his recording of The
Early Music of Elliott Carter was selected as one of the Top 10
recordings of the year by Time and Newsweek.

He also serves
as co-director with pianist Michael Boriskin of Music from Copland
House, a chamber music ensemble dedicated to the advocacy of American
music based at the long-time home of Aaron Copland.

Ethel

Ethel is New
York's hippest bunch of vibrating strings, taking the new music world
by storm. On the stages of worldwide concert halls, rock clubs and
stadiums, Ralph Farris, Dorothy Lawson, Todd Reynolds and Mary Rowell
have made Ethel a stimulating and inspired voice in the creative
music community. Collectively and individually, these artists have
been making noise across genres and disciplines for many years, from
the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Steve Reich
Ensemble to the Sheryl Crow and Roger Daltrey bands, from the
Rochester and the New York Philharmonics to the Orpheus Chamber
Ensemble and Bang On A Can. Most recently, Ethel has been presented
at Merkin Hall as part of the "Great Day In New York," as
well as on the Bang On A Can Marathon in Hamburg as part of the
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Ethel is engaged in ongoing
projects with Lisa Bielawa, John King, Phil Kline, Randy Woolf and
Evan Ziporyn. Ethel is featured on Joe Jackson's latest release,
Night and Day II, as well as on Mutable Music's debut releases, Day
of Love and The Visibility of Thought.

David
Felder

David Felder's
works have been featured in many of the leading international
festivals for new music including Holland, Huddersfield, Darmstadt,
Ars Electronica, Brussels, ISCM, North American New Music, Geneva,
Ravinia, Aspen, Music Factory, Bourges, Vienna Modern, and many
others. His works earn continuing recognition through performance and
commissioning programs by such organizations as the New York New
Music Ensemble, BBC Orchestra, Arditti Quartet, American Composers
Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, American Brass Quintet, Ensemble
InterContemporain and many others.

Mr. Felder has
received numerous grants and commissions including six awards from
the National Endowment for the Arts, two New York State Council
Commissions, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,
Guggenheim, Koussevitzky, two Fromm Foundation Fellowships, two
awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer New
Residencies (1993-1996), a commission from the Mary Flagler Cary
Trust, and many more. Currently, Mr. Felder is Professor of
Composition at SUNY Buffalo, where he also holds the Birge-Cary Chair
in Composition, and has been Artistic Director of the Festival from
1985 to the present. He has taught previously at the Cleveland
Institute of Music, the University of California, San Diego, and
California State University, Long Beach, and earned a Ph.D. from the
University of California, San Diego, in 1983.

Corey
Field

Corey Field is
Director of New Media Administration for J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc.,
an international music distributor and Internet retailer based in
Valley Forge, PA. He was formerly Vice President of European American
Music Distributors Corporation where his music publishing activities
included international acquisition, licensing and royalty accounting
for media. He has been involved in reciprocal linking and promotional
web site agreements with music entities, including the Harry Fox
Agency's "Songfile;" Sony Records (Ken Burns
"Jazz"); Warner Bros. Publications; and Cameron Mackintosh
Productions, as well as software licensing agreements for digital
distribution of printed music. He has served as a frequent panelist
and guest speaker for a variety of organizations. Mr. Field has
received several Paul Revere Awards for Excellence in Music
Publishing given by the Music Publishers' Association of the United
States, and currently serves as a member of the MPA Board. He holds a
B.A. in Music from the University of California (Santa Barbara), and
a D.Phil. from the University of York, England.

Joshua
Fineberg

Joshua
Fineberg began his musical studies at the age of five; they have
included, in addition to composition, violin, guitar, piano,
harpsichord and conducting. He completed his undergraduate studies at
the Peabody Conservatory with Morris Cotel; in 1991, he moved to
Paris and studied with Tristan Murail. The following year he was
selected by the IRCAM/Ensemble InterContemporain reading panel for
the course in composition and musical technologies. In the Fall of
1997, he returned to the US to pursue a doctorate in musical
composition at Columbia University. He is currently an Assistant
Professor of Music at Harvard University.

In 1992, his
work for large orchestra Origin was selected by the
international jury of the Gaudeamus Foundation as a finalist for the
Gaudeamus Prize and was premiered by the Radio Symfonie Orkest of the
N.O.S. during the 1992 Gaudeamus Music Week.

Mr. Fineberg
has collaborated with IRCAM as a lecturer for seminars and as
compositional coordinator for their 1996 four-week summer course.
Besides his compositional and pedagogical activities, he has actively
collaborated with computer scientists and music psychologists to help
develop tools for computer-assisted composition and in music
perception research. Finally, he has been deeply involved in working
with performing ensembles as Artistic Director for recordings of many
European ensembles and soloists, and during the 1999-2000 Season as a
director of Speculum Musicae and the Columbia Sinfonietta. He is also
the issue editor for two issues of The Contemporary Music Review on
"Spectral Music" (release summer 2001). His works have been
performed, commissioned and recorded by leading ensembles and
soloists in Europe, Asia and the United States; they are published by
Editions Max Eschig.

Jason
Freeman

Jason
Freeman is a doctoral candidate in composition at Columbia
University. His instrumental music has been performed by Le Nouvel
Ensemble Moderne, bass clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, the University of
Florida New Music Ensemble, and the Yale Concert Band, and his music
has been played at the ACO¹s Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions.

His
interactive electronic music, which has recently been presented at
the Lincoln Center Festival and at the Flea Theater, focuses on
creating environments which turn audience members into performers,
transforming their voices into music. Telephone Etude 1: Shakespeare
Cuisinart, which is accessed via a toll-free telephone number, was
recently featured in The New York Times and on National Public
Radio¹s "All Things Considered," and has been
experienced by over 21,000 callers. Currently, Freeman is developing
educational music software for middle school students as part of the
JPMorganChase Kids Digital Movement and Sound Project.

Jeremy
Geffen

Jeremy Geffen
joined the staff of the New York Philharmonic as artistic
administrator in September 2000, following three years as associate
artistic administrator of the Aspen Music Festival and School. In
Aspen, he frequently led audience-development activities: in the
summer giving pre-concert lectures prior to Aspen Festival Orchestra
concerts and hosting the public discussion series "High
Notes" and in the winter hosting the Aspen Music Festival's
series of interactive and informal concerts. He also taught courses
in Exoticism in 20th Century Music, Music and Dance, and Music and
Poetry. In the winter of 2000 Geffen served as a moderator for two
seminars entitled "The Marriage of Music and Ideas" at the
Aspen Institute. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Geffen was trained
as a violist at the University of Southern California and has studied
with such notable pedagogues as Donald McInnes, Karen Tuttle, Robert
Vernon, Jerome Lowenthal and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

James
Kendrick

James Kendrick
is a partner in the New York law firm of Brown Raysman Millstein
Felder & Steiner LLP who specializes in intellectual property
licensing and has more than 20 years of experience in this field. In
addition to his law experience, Jim was also the Chief Executive
Officer of Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.

Jim has
represented music publishers, television and film producers, and
individual composers and estates in a wide variety of transactions,
including copyright acquisitions and sales, financing, and licensing
in all media. He is counsel to the Music Publishers Association of
the United States and also serves as Secretary and counsel to the
Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., the Virgil Thomson Foundation
Ltd., the Koussevitzky Music Foundations, and the Charles Ives
Society, Inc. He is a board member of the American Music Center, Inc.
and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; and is an Adjunct Professor
of Law at Rutgers Law School. He is a graduate of the Manhattan
School of Music, the Juilliard School, and Rutgers Law School.

Richard
Kessler

Richard
Kessler is the executive director of the American Music Center, the
national service and information center for new American music,
created in 1939 by Aaron Copland and Howard Hanson. Prior to becoming
director of the AMC, Kessler was vice president of the educational
consulting firm Artsvision, where he helped to create and implement
many of North America's arts and education programs for school
communities, arts organizations and foundations including the New
York City Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education, and education
programs for the Cleveland Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Baltimore
Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Acting Company, Ballet
Chicago and Gibbes Museum of Art.

Before joining
Artsvision, Kessler was a Naumburg Award-winning chamber musician,
where he commissioned, recorded and premiered works by Arvo Pärt,
Anthony Davis, John Harbison, Elliot Goldenthal, Joe Schwantner,
Aaron Kernis, Ned Rorem and Richard Danielpour. As a keynote speaker
and conference panelist, Kessler has worked with organizations such
as the American Symphony Orchestra League, Bank Street College of
Education, American Symphony Orchestra League, Cal Performances,
Jeunesse Musicale and the New York State Council on the Arts. Kessler
is on the board of the National Music Council and the Advisory Board
of the American Symphony Orchestra League's Music for a New
Millennium project. Kessler was a faculty member of the Manhattan
School of Music for five years and holds two degrees from The
Juilliard School.

Mari
Kimura

Mari
Kimura embraces the world of extended violin technique and
interactive computer music by making them her own. Using both
acoustic and electronic/MIDI violin, she pushes the boundaries of
instruments by playing her own works (such as "U" (The
Cormorant) for violin and live electronics) and those composed
especially for her.

As a composer,
her recent commissions include Violin Concerto for violin and
interactive computer system with orchestra (Teatro Juarez in
Guanajuato, Mexico, 1999) and Kivika for dance (Joyce SOHO in New
York, 2000). Most recently, Ms. Kimura won the ICMC 2001 Commission
Award to write a new work for violin, Cuban percussion and
electronics, which will be premiered in Havana, Cuba in September, 2001.

Ms. Kimura has
studied with such major teachers as Joseph Fuchs, Roman Totenberg,
Toshiya Eto, and Armand Weisbord. She also studied composition with
Mario Davidovsky at Columbia University, and computer music at
Stanford University. Ms. Kimura holds a doctorate in performance from
the Juilliard School. She taught as Assistant Professor of violin at
New York University, and gave lectures in universities and
conservatories throughout the world. Since September 1998, Ms. Kimura
has been teaching a graduate class in Computer Music Performance at
the Juilliard School.

Joseph
H. Kluger

Joseph H.
Kluger has served as The Philadelphia Orchestra Association's chief
administrative officer since May 1989, when he was appointed
executive director and has held the title of president since November
1991. He joined The Philadelphia Orchestra staff in 1985 as general
manager, after a seven-year stint with the New York Philharmonic,
where he had been on staff in a variety of positions, culminating in
the position of orchestra manager. Kluger is an internationally
recognized expert in the classical music industry on recordings,
broadcasts, the Internet and other electronic media activities and
has served for ten years as the chairman of the Orchestra Managers'
Media Committee of the American Symphony Orchestra League.

Golan
Levin

Golan Levin is
an artist, composer and designer whose work is focused on the
development of artifacts and environments which explore supple new
modes of interactive audiovisual expression. Mr. Levin recently
completed his Masters' degree in Media Arts and Sciences at the
Aesthetics and Computation Group of the MIT Media Laboratory, where
he created computational systems for the simultaneous performance of
animated imagery and sound. Prior to this, Mr. Levin received a B.S.
degree in Art and Design from MIT in 1994, and worked as a research
scientist and interaction designer at Interval Research Corporation
for four years.

Mr. Levin has
exhibited interactive artworks and performances at numerous venues,
including the SIGGRAPH 1996 and 2000 Art Shows, the 1997
International Symposium of Electronic Art, the Ars Electronica 1997
and 2000 festivals, the San Jose Technology Museum of Innovation, and
the New York Digital Salon 2000. His installation Rouen Revisited is
included in the permanent collection of the American Museum of the
Moving Image in New York City. Most recently, Mr. Levin's Audiovisual
Environment Suite received the prestigious Award of Distinction (2nd
prize) in the international Prix Ars Electronica competition. At Ars
Electronica 2000, Mr. Levin and his trio performed Scribble, a
half-hour audiovisual composition commissioned specifically for the festival.

George
Lewis

George Lewis
is an improviser-trombonist, composer and computer/installation
artist. He studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM
School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey. As a composer, Mr. Lewis
has explored electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia
installations, text-sound works, and notated forms. A member of the
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since
1971, Mr. Lewis's work as a composer, improvisor, performer and
interpreter is documented on more than ninety recordings. His works
have been presented at the IRCAM Summer Academy (France), De
Ijsbreker, the Groningen JazzMarathon and the BIM-Huis (Netherlands),
P3 Art and Environment (Tokyo), the Centro Multimedia/ Centro
National de las Artes (Mexico City), Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute/iEAR Studios, Metronom (Barcelona), the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of
Contemporary Music, the Bang on a Can Marathon at Alice Tully Hall
(New York), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), the Beijing
International Jazz Festival, the New England Conservatory
Improvisation Festival, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London),
the Western Front (Vancouver), the Center for New Music and Audio
Technology (Berkeley) and the Velvet Lounge (Chicago).

Mr. Lewis has
served as Darius Milhaud Professor in Composition at Mills College,
as Lecturer in computer music at Simon Fraser University's
Contemporary Arts Summer Institute, and as Visiting Artist/Lecturer
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Lewis has received
numerous Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and
was the recipient of the 1999 Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Mr.
Lewis now serves as Professor of Music in the Critical
Studies/Experimental Practices area at the University of California,
San Diego.

Steven
Mackey

Steven
Mackey was born in Frankfurt, Germany to American parents in 1956.
He earned his B.A. from the University of California-Davis, summa cum
laude and Phi Beta Kappa, an M.A. at the State University of New York
at Stony Brook, and Ph.D from Brandeis University in 1985. Mr. Mackey
is currently Professor of Music at Princeton University where he is
Co-Director of the Composers Ensemble at Princeton and teaches
composition, theory and courses in twentieth-century music. He has
been a member of the faculty of Princeton University since 1985, and
in 1991 he was awarded their first-ever Distinguished Teaching Award.

As a composer,
Mr. Mackey has been honored by numerous awards including a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a Lieberson Fellowship and a Charles Ives Scholarship
from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the
Joseph H. Bearns Prize from Columbia University, a Tanglewood
Fellowship, an award from Broadcast Music, Inc., and the
International Society of Contemporary Music Award. In 1986, he was
the Composer-in-Residence at the Aspen Music Festival. His
commissions have included works for the Koussevitzky Foundation at
the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation, the Concord String
Quartet, Kronos Quartet, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston,
and soprano Dawn Upshaw. His string quartet, Fumeux Fume was the
winning piece in the 1987 Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, and his
Indigenous Instruments was selected to represent the United States at
the International Composers Rostrum in Paris.

Charles
Mann

Charles C.
Mann's most recent book is @ Large (Simon & Schuster), the true
story of a bizarre, calamitous episode in the history of the
Internet. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and Science, he
has spent the last three years covering the intersection of culture,
commerce and technology-focusing especially on music-for many
newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including Business 2.0,
Forbes, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Paris-Match (France), Quark
(Japan), The Sciences, Smithsonian and The Washington Post. A
two-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has received writing
prizes from the American Bar Association (for his coverage of
copyright), the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation and the Margaret Sanger Foundation. At present, he is
writing a history of high modernism; an excerpt, "1491," is
forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly.

Ingram
Marshall

Ingram
Marshall has lived and worked extensively in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Educated at Lake Forest College, Columbia University, where he
worked with Vladimir Ussachevsky, and California Institute of the
Arts, where he worked with Morton Subotnick, Marshall went on to
study gamelan music in Bali and Java in 1971. Over the next several
years, Marshall further cultivated his interest in Indonesian music
and continued the experimental work in electronic music. Certain
characteristics of Marshall's music, such as the slowed-down sense of
time and use of melodic repetition, can be traced to his study of
Indonesian music. Marshall has performed his own live electronic
music in the U.S. and Europe, and has collaborated with various
artists and choreographers including photographer Jim Bengston and
choreographers Stuart Pimsler and Paula Josa-Jones. Marshall has been
the recipient of awards, grants and commissions from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fromm
Foundation, California Arts Council and the Washington State Arts Commission.

Jeffrey
Milarsky

Conductor and
percussionist Jeffrey Milarsky has premiered and recorded works of
many contemporary composers, including Charles Wuorinen, Ralph
Shapey, Mario Davidovsky, Wayne Peterson and Jonathan Dawe. He has
led such accomplished groups as the American Composers Orchestra, the
New York New Music Ensemble, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center, Columbia Sinfonietta, Speculum Musicae, Cygnus Ensemble, the
Fromm Players at Harvard University, the Composers' Ensemble at
Princeton University and the New York Philharmonic chamber music series.

Milarsky is
professor of music at Columbia University, as well as music director
and conductor of the University's orchestra. He is director of the
Composers' Forum at The Juilliard School, from where he received his
bachelor and master of music degrees, and is on the percussion
faculty of the School's Pre-College. He regularly conducts The
Juilliard Orchestra, with whom he has premiered over 70 works of
Juilliard student composers over the past 15 years. Milarsky is also
a faculty member at The Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and has
recently joined the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music as
artistic director and conductor of the percussion ensemble.

Milarsky
performs and records regularly with the New York Philharmonic, the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the American Composers
Orchestra, the Stamford Symphony and Concordia. He has recorded for
Angel, Teldec, Telarc, New World, CRI, MusicMasters, EMI, Koch and
London records.

Paul
D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky)

Paul D. Miller
(a.k.a. DJ Spooky) is a conceptual artist, writer and musician
working in New York City. Miller is most well known under the moniker
of "DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid," a character from his
upcoming novel Flow My Blood the DJ Said, which uses a wide variety
of digitally created music as a form of post-modern sculpture. As DJ
Spooky, Miller has recorded a huge volume of music and has
collaborated a wide variety of pre-eminent musicians such as Iannis
Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor
Octagon, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore
from Sonic Youth. Miller's written work has appeared in the Village
Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages and Paper Magazine. He
was the first editor-at-large of the cutting edge Artbyte: The
Magazine of Digital Culture. Miller's work as a visual artist has
appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial,
The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne
and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. More information can be
found at www.djspooky.com

Evans
Mirageas

Evans
Mirageas's varied career has embraced radio production with the
nationally renowned WFMT in Chicago, symphony administration as
artistic administrator to Seiji Ozawa at the Boston Symphony and
artistic leadership as senior vice-president and award-winning record
producer at Decca. He recently directed the European launch of the
American Internet arts ticketing agency CultureFinder.com. He
currently serves as artistic advisor to celebrated conductor Semyon
Bychkov, as well as the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Milwaukee Symphony.

James
Mobberly

James
Mobberley received his masters in composition at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied with Roger Hannay. He
earned his doctorate at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying
with Donald Erb and Eugene O'Brien.

Mr. Mobberley
began teaching composition in 1981, with a year at the Cleveland
Institute of Music then a year at Webster University in St. Louis. He
joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Music at the University of
Missouri Kansas City in 1983, and has recently been named Curators'
Professor of Music. He also directs the Conservatory's Music
Production And Computer Technology (M-Pact) Center. His position as
the Kansas City Symphony's first Composer-in-Residence began in 1991.

Mr. Mobberley
is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence for New Ear, Kansas
City's Contemporary Music Ensemble. His fellowships, grants, and
awards, include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize Fellowship, a
Composer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Lee Ettelson Composers Award, as well as awards from a variety of
other sources. Mr. Mobberley's music spans many media: from
orchestral and chamber music, music for film, video, theater, dance,
to music that combines electronic and computer elements with live performance.

Martha
Mooke

Martha
Mooke is a pioneer in the field of the electric five-string viola.
She has developed a unique musical voice by synthesizing her
classical music training with extended techniques, digital effects
processing and improvisation, while retaining the depth and soul of
the instrument. She has received awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer
and Arts International. Besides her catalog of works for solo and
ensemble electric strings, she has composed music for theater and
ballet and served as Music Director for national and international events.

Ms. Mooke's
diverse schedule includes touring, clinics and lecture demonstrations
on electric strings and the use of electronics, extended techniques
and improvisation. Enharmonic Vision, her solo debut CD, continues to
receive wide critical acclaim. Along with electric ebow guitarist
Randolph Hudson, III, the duo Bowing will release its long awaited CD
later this year. Ms. Mooke performs with many of New York's leading
ensembles, touring and recording in the states and abroad. She
recently performed with David Bowie, Moby, Philip Glass and Tony
Visconti at the sold out benefit for Tibet House at Carnegie Hall.
She played in the U.S. premiere of Paul McCartney's Standing Stone at
Carnegie Hall and on Philip Glass's film scores of Kundun and
Koyaanisqatsi. She has a platinum record for her work on 10,000
Maniacs Unplugged. Other artists she has performed and recorded with
are Enya, Lauryn Hill, Al DiMeola, John Cale, Anthony Braxton, the
Orchestra of St. Luke's, Soldier String Quartet, Musicians Accord,
Turtle Island String Quartet and Steve Reich. She has performed on
Regis Live!, the David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and
Rosie O'Donnell shows. Ms. Mooke created and is the Producer of
ASCAP's new music showcase THRU THE WALLS featuring composer/performers
whose work defies categorization.

Tristan
Murail

Tristan Murail
has been teaching composition at Columbia University since 1997. He
was previously professor of computer music at the Paris Conservatoire
and professor of composition at IRCAM (Institut de Récherche
et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris, where he was also
consultant to the computer-assisted composition research team and
worked on the development of the Patchwork program. Murail studied
composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and
computer music at IRCAM. He won the Prix de Rome from the Paris
Conservatoire in 1971, has been the recipient of several awards from
the Académie Française and from SACEM, and was awarded
the Grand Prix du Disque (1990) and the Grand Prix du Président
de la République, Académie Charles Cros (1992).

John
Oswald

John Oswald's
recent activities include: a sonic motorcade in Brasilia, and a dance
composition for 22 choreographers (including Bill T.Jones, Margie
Gillis, & Holly Small). His commissions include those from the
Lyon Opera Ballet, Dutch National Radio, Change of Heart, SMCQ and
Radio Canada. His other works are in the active repertoire of the
Kronos Quartet (they have performed his Spectre for over 300 times
worldwide, & another commission, Mach almost as often), the
Culberg Ballet Sweden, the Monaco Ballet, the Deutsche Opera Ballet
Berlin, the Modern Quartet, the Penderecki Quartet, and others. His
recorded works have been used in productions for radio, stage,
concert, television, film, Hollywood movies, computer media and video.

Last year, Mr.
Oswald composed a score for the National Ballet of Canada for
orchestra, robot piano and the disembodied singing voice of Glenn
Gould. For the past year, he has been creating a database of photo
portraits for a series of Moving Stills. In 1990, Mr. Oswald's most
notorious recording, plunderphonic, was destroyed by prudes in the
Recording Industry representing Michael Jackson. Mr. swald is
Director of Research at MysteryLaboratory in Canada, and Musical
Director of the North American Experience.

Frank
J. Oteri

Frank J. Oteri
is a New York City-based composer and the editor of NewMusicBox, the
American Music Center's ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award-winning web magazine
(www.newmusicbox.org). An outspoken new music crusader whose comments
have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall
Street Journal, Oteri has given conference presentations for Chamber
Music America, the American Music Personnel in Public Radio, the
Music Critics Association of North America, the International
Association of Music Information Centres and the Menil Collection.
His articles have appeared in BBC Music Magazine, Stagebill,
Gramophone's ICRC and the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians. Oteri's musical compositions include chamber and vocal
works, and the "performance oratorio" Machunas, based on
the life of Fluxus founder George Maciunas.

Joseph
Paradiso

Joseph
Paradiso is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab,
where he directs the Responsive Environments Group, which develops
sensing modalities and enabling technologies that create new forms of
interactive experience and expression. His work addresses many
application areas, ranging from interactive music systems to smart
highways and wearable computers. He is an authority on electronic
music interfaces, having developed many unique controllers that range
from instruments for highly-skilled performers through musical
installations open to the general public. His work has been exhibited
and presented at many different international venues. He has designed
several musical interfaces for many collaborations with Tod Machover,
including the hyperviolin tracker, the sensor chair, and the Brain
Opera. He is the winner of a 2000 Discover Magazine Award for
Technical Innovation for his Expressive Footwear System, a
multisensor interface for electronic dance.

Mr. Paradiso
has been designing electronic music synthesizers and composing
electronic music since 1975, and has been producing electronic and
avant-guarde music programs for non-commercial radio since 1974. He
has designed one of the world's largest modular synthesizers for his
own use, and has developed MIDI systems for internationally-known
musicians such as Pat Metheney and Lyle Mays.

Miller
Puckette

Miller
Puckette obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT (1980) and Ph. D. in
Mathematics from Harvard (1986). Mr. Puckette was a member of the MIT
Media Lab from its inception until 1987, and then a researcher at
IRCAM (l'Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Musique/Acoustique,
founded by composer and conductor Pierre Boulez). There he wrote the
Max program for MacIntosh computers, which was first distributed
commercially by Opcode Systems in 1990 and is now available from
Cycling74.com. In 1989, Mr. Puckette joined IRCAM's "musical
workstation" team and put together an enhanced version of Max,
called Max/FTS, for the ISPW system, which was commercialized by
Ariel, Inc. This system became a widely used platform in computer
music research and production facilities. The IRCAM real-time
development team has since re-implemented and extended this software
under the name JMAX, which is distributed free with source code. Mr.
Puckette joined UCSD's music department in 1994, and is the Associate
Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA).

Roger
Reynolds

Roger Reynolds
was educated in music and science at the University of Michigan. His
compositions incorporate elements of theater, digital signal
processing, dance, video, and real-time computer spatialization, in a
signature multidimensionality of engagement. The central thread woven
through Mr. Reynolds' uniquely varied career entwines language with
the spatial aspects of music. This center first emerged in his
notorious music-theater work, The Emperor of Ice Cream (1961-62; 8
singers, 3 instrumentalists; text: Wallace Stevens), and is carried
forward in the VOICESPACE series (quadraphonic tape compositions on
texts by Coleridge, Beckett, Borges and others), Odyssey (an unstaged
opera for 2 singers, 2 recitants, large ensemble, multichannel
computer sound; bilingual text: Beckett), and JUSTICE (1999; soprano,
actress, percussionist, computer sound and real-time spatialization,
with staging; text: Aeschylus).

In addition to
his composing, Mr. Reynolds' writing, lecturing, organization of
musical events and teaching have prompted numerous residencies at
international festivals. He was a co-director of the New York
Philharmonic's Horizons '84, has been a frequent participant in the
Warsaw Autumn festivals, and was commissioned by Toru Takemitsu to
create a program for the Suntory Hall International Series. Mr.
Reynolds' regular masterclass activity in American universities also
extends outward: to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Ircam in Paris,
to Latin America and Asia, to Thessaloniki. His extensive orchestral
catalog includes commissions from the Philadelphia, Los Angeles and
BBC Orchestras.

In 1988,
perplexed by a John Ashbery poem, Reynolds responded with Whispers
Out of Time, a string orchestra work which earned him the prestigious
Pulitzer Prize. Critic Kyle Gann has noted that he was the first
experimentalist to be so honored since Charles Ives. Reynolds'
writing, beginning with the influential book, Mind Models (1975), has
appeared widely in Asian, American and European journals, while his
music, recorded on Auvidis / Montaigne, Mode, New World, and Neuma,
among others, is published exclusively by C. F. Peters Corporation,
New York.

In 1998, Mode
Records released WATERSHED, the first DVD in Dolby Digital 5.1 to
feature music composed expressly for a multichannel medium. In the
same year, The Library of Congress established the Roger Reynolds
Special Collection. Writing in The New Yorker, Andrew Porter called
him "at once an explorer and a visionary composer, whose works
can lead listeners to follow him into new regions of emotion and meaning."

Pete
Rice

Pete Rice is a
musician and software designer, specializing in interactive musical
experiences for the Internet, game industry and live performance.
Rice grew up in California where he tested video games professionally
as a teenager. He studied at MIT where he worked in Todd Machover's
hyperinstruments group at the Media Lab and where he earned both
bachelor's and master's degrees. Rice was a significant collaborator
on several of Machover's projects including the Brain Opera, for
which he was chief designer of interactive performance software. At
the Media Lab, Rice also developed "Stretchables," which
allow the manipulation of dynamic graphical animations to control and
shape live music, controllable by DJ-type performers, by audience
movements or by commands in a dance club environment.

From
1999-2001, Rice was a developer of Internet music applications for
Shockwave and has recently started his own company in San Francisco
to design a wide range of interactive music games and experiences for
the web, as well as for public venues such as theme parks.

Neil
Rolnick

Neil Rolnick's
career as a composer and performer since the late 1970s has spanned
many areas of musical endeavor, often including unexpected and
unusual combinations of materials and media. He has performed his
music around the world, exploring forms as diverse as digital
sampling, interactive multimedia, and traditional musical theater.
His music appears on 10 CDs, and his work has received support from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Asian Cultural Council and the Fulbright Foundation, among others.
Throughout the 1980s and '90s he has also been responsible for the
development of the first integrated electronic arts graduate and
undergraduate programs in the US, at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute's iEAR Studios, in Troy, NY. Rolnick's innovation as an
educator has been to bring together the commonality of artistic
creation across many disciplines - which relates directly to his
varied creative work with filmmakers, writers, and video and media
artists.

Gil
Rose

Gil Rose is
the founder and music director of the Boston Modern Orchestra
Project. Active as a guest conductor, Rose has led orchestras
throughout Europe and the United States, including recent appearances
with orchestras in the Czech Republic. He has been selected as a
participant in many international competitions including the Concours
International de Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre in Besancon, France; the
Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in
Katowice, Poland; and the Lovro Matacic International Conducting
Competition in Zagreb, Croatia.

Rose
received his undergraduate training at the Cincinnati College
Conservatory of Music. Rose holds a master's degree and artist
diploma from Carnegie Mellon University, where his teachers were
Samuel Jones and Juan Pablo Izquierdo. While at Carnegie Mellon he
served as assistant to Maestro Izquierdo at the Institute for
Orchestral Studies in Memory of Hermann Scherchen. Rose has continued
his studies in seminars and master classes with Pierre Boulez, Otto
Werner Mueller, Seiji Ozawa and Max Rudolph.

Jesse
Rosen

Jesse Rosen is
vice president and chief program officer of the American Symphony
Orchestra League. Previously he served as general manager of the
Seattle Symphony, where he was responsible for orchestra operations,
electronic media, touring and special projects. Prior to his position
at the Seattle Symphony, Rosen served as executive vice president and
managing director of the American Composers Orchestra in New York
City. He also served as orchestra manager of the New York
Philharmonic and as vice president of programs for Affiliate Artists,
Inc., where he developed and launched the Seaver Conducting Award and
managed the Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductors Program. Rosen received
his bachelor's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and pursued
graduate studies at The Juilliard School.

Mathew
Rosenblum

Mathew
Rosenblum was born in New York City in 1954. He earned advanced
degrees in music composition at the New England Conservatory of Music
and Princeton University. His works have been performed throughout
the United States and Europe including the 1990 ISCM World Music Days
in Oslo Norway, De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam, the Tonhalle in
Düsseldorf, the Bing Theater in LA., and at the Sonic Boom
Festival in New York City by ensembles including the California Ear
Unit, Newband, Earplay, the Dinosaur Annex Ensemble, the New York New
Music Ensemble, the Rascher Saxophone Quartet, the Chicago
Contemporary Players, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Sequitur,
and others. Recent commissions and performances include a Concerto
for Saxophone Quartet and Chamber Orchestra commissioned by the
Rascher Saxophone Quartet and premiered in Düsseldorf Germany in
March 2000, a work celebrating the new millennium for chamber
ensemble and pre-recorded text commissioned by the Gould Center for
Humanistic Studies, premiered in Claremont California in April, and a
multi-media chamber opera incorporating surround-sound audio and
interactive video currently being written for Mary Nessinger and the
New York ensemble Sequitur. Rosenblum's music is a synthesis of
diverse musical elements derived from classical, jazz, rock, and
world music traditions. Most notably, his current music uses two
tuning systems, the normal twelve note equal tempered system, and a
twenty one note-to-the-octave "just" system designed to be
used in conjunction with the twelve note equal tempered system. His
music moves freely through passages and movements which use
combinations of altered or tempered tunings, and explores ways in
which seemingly separate musical voices and traditions may be woven
together into a newly expressive whole. He is currently an Associate
Professor of composition at the University of Pittsburgh.

Robert
Rowe

Robert Rowe's
music is performed throughout North America, Europe and Japan. In
1991 he became the first composer to complete the doctorate degree in
music and cognition at the MIT Media Laboratory.

From 1978 to
1987 he lived and worked in Europe, associated with the Institute of
Sonology in Utrecht, the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, the ASKO
Ensemble of Amsterdam and with IRCAM in Paris, where he was head of
control level software development for the 4X machine. His piece Hall
of Mirrors for Dutch bass clarinetist Harry Sparnaay and the 4X was
premiered at IRCAM in 1986. In 1990 his composition Flood Gate won
first prize in the "Live Electroacoustic" category of the
Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition.

Rowe's music
can be heard on compact discs from Harmonia Mundi and the
International Computer Music Association. His book/CD-ROM projects
Interactive Music Systems (1993) and Machine Musicianship (2001) are
available from the MIT Press.

Rowe also
holds a master's degree in composition (Iowa) and a bachelor's degree
in music history and theory (Wisconsin). He is currently associate
professor and associate director of the music technology program at
New York University.

Greg
Sandow

Greg Sandow is
a composer, critic and consultant. He wrote a column on new music for
the Village Voice in the 1980s and later was chief pop music critic
for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and music editor at Entertainment
Weekly. Currently he writes about classical music for the Wall Street
Journal and other publications and teaches graduate courses on music
criticism and on the future of classical music at The Juilliard
School. His compositions include four operas, all successfully
produced in the '70s and '80s. Now, after a long hiatus, he's working
on a fifth.

John
Schaefer

John Schaefer
is the executive producer of music programming at WNYC radio. He has
hosted and produced the radio series "New Sounds" since
1982. This program has been heard via National Public Radio in the
U.S. and Puerto Rico, and on public radio in Australia and Taiwan. In
1991, Schaefer created WNYC's "Around New York," a daily
program of live chamber music, classic jazz and occasional musical
oddities heard each weekday afternoon.

Schaefer has
written extensively about music, including the book New Sounds: A
Listener's Guide to New Music (Harper & Row, NY 1987; Virgin
Books, London, 1990); The Cambridge Companion to Singing: World Music
(Cambridge University Press, U.K., 1999); and a biography of composer
La Monte Young (in Sound and Light, Bucknell University Press, 1996).
He was contributing editor for Spin and Ear magazines. His liner
notes appear on more than 50 recordings, ranging from the 1996 NAIRD
winner The Music of Armenia to The Bach Variations; from Terry
Riley's In C to Bobby McFerrin's Paper Music.

Steven
Schick

Steven Schick
has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and
teacher for the past 20 years. Schick has commissioned and premiered
more than 100 new works for percussion and has performed these pieces
on major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers and
the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts, as well as in
international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Proms, the
Jerusalem Festival, the Holland Festival, the Stockholm International
Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring Festival. He has recorded
many of those works for Sony Classical, Wergo, Point, CRI and will
release a new solo CD with Neuma Records.

Schick is the
percussionist of the Bang On A Can All-Stars. Other important ongoing
collaborations include work with pianist James Avery, the percussion
group "red fish blue fish" and the Maya Beiser/Steven
Schick Project.

From 1984 to
1992, Schick taught at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
in Darmstadt, Germany, co-directing the course's seminal percussion
program with James Wood. He has been regular guest lecturer at the
Rotterdam Conservatory and the Royal College of Music in London.
Schick is professor of music at the University of California, San
Diego and lecturer in percussion at the Manhattan School of Music.

Schick studied
at the University of Iowa and received the Soloist's Diploma from the
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany.

Jonathan
Sheffer

Jonathan
Sheffer is a conductor and composer who has moved freely in creating
and interpreting music over a wide spectrum. In the 2001 season,
Sheffer was a featured guest conductor at the American Ballet Theatre
at the Metropolitan Opera, the Norwalk Symphony and the Bronx Arts
Ensemble. In 2000, Sheffer conducted the Sapporo Symphony at the
Pacific Music Festival in Japan; the New World Symphony in Miami,
Florida; and the United World Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in Bonn,
Germany, which was broadcast live on German National Television.
Future engagements include conducting performances of John Philip
Sousa's The Glass Blowers at the New York City Opera in 2002.

In 1995
Sheffer founded the Eos Orchestra. Through innovative programming,
the rediscovery of important neglected works and composers, and
collaborations with other artistic disciplines to produce new and
exciting performances, Eos seeks to be a driving force in the
revitalization of the live music experience. Past Eos seasons have
featured two critically acclaimed concerts of Six Ten-Minute Operas,
a world premiere performance of a suite of music from the film The
Red Violin, a concert of music from the 1939 World's Fair, and a
festival of music by author and composer Paul Bowles.

David
Soley

David Soley
was born in Ancon, Panama, in 1962 and moved to the U.S. in 1979. His
early musical studies were with Edwin Cobham and Dale Brooks. After
three years in the U.S. Army (3d Armored Division Band, Frankfurt,
Germany), he began his formal music studies at California State
University, Northridge (B.M. 1987), and completed them at Stanford
University (D.M.A. 1993). He has studied with Lukas Foss and Oliver
Knussen at Tanglewood and with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia
Musicale Chigiana. He has received commissions from the New York
Youth Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Meet The
Composer, the Koussevitsky Music Foundation, The Stony Brook
Contemporary Chamber Players, Earplay, IRCAM/Ensemble
InterContemporain, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Fromm Music
Foundation. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the American
Composers Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland
Orchestra have also performed his music.

He has been
the recipient of various fellowships and prizes, including a
Guggenheim Fellowship, an ASCAP Foundation Grant, two BMI awards, the
Bearns Prize of Columbia University and a residency at the Djerassi
Resident Artists Program.

Speculum
Musicae

For over 30
years, Speculum Musicae has been internationally recognized for its
immaculately prepared and passionately rendered performances of the
music of our time. Since its formation in 1971, Speculum Musicae has
maintained its position as one of the nation's preeminent
contemporary chamber ensembles. In addition to its annual concert
series in New York, the ensemble had performed at the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts, The Library of Congress, the New Music Los
Angeles series and the New York Philharmonic's New Horizons series.
Speculum Musicae has also performed abroad including a 1988
performance at the Bath Festival, which was broadcast on BBC
television. Speculum Musicae served as the featured ensemble at
Poland's Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1986. Speculum Musicae has
recorded for CRI, Nonesuch, New World, Columbia and Bridge Records.

Speculum
Musicae is comprised of 12 of New York's most gifted musicians that
work together in a co-operative organizational structure. Over the
years, these artists have developed an unequaled rapport and ensemble
sound. Their artistry is combined with a deep and lasting commitment
to new music, which has made them an important part in the
development of the contemporary repertoire. In turn, the members of
Speculum Musicae and their audience has benefited from extensive
collaboration and interaction with the composers whose works they present.

George
Steel

George Steel
is executive director of Columbia University's Miller Theatre, where
he has garnered universal praise as a champion of new and old music.
Prior to his arrival at Miller Theatre, Steel was managing producer
at New York's 92nd Street Y. Among Steel's recent presentations are
Luciano Berio's complete Sequenzas, the U.S. premiere of Xenaki's'
Kraanerg with DJ Spooky, an all-Penderecki concert, and the recently
launched "New Works" series. Steel studied conducting with
Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood. He is also active as a singer and
composer and is the conductor and artistic director of the VOX Vocal Ensemble.

Rand
Steiger

Composer/conductor
Rand Steiger was born in New York City in 1957. His compositions
have been performed at international festivals and by many ensembles
including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, American Composers
Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, San Francisco Contemporary Music
Players, and the New York New Music Ensemble. He has received a Rome
Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowship, and
commissions from the Fromm Foundation, Ircam, the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the National Flute Association,
Meet the Composer (for Steven Schick and Maya Beiser) and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, where he served as Composer Fellow from 1987
through 1989. His compositions and performances are recorded on the
Centaur, CRI, Crystal, Einstein, Koch, Mode, New Albion, New World
and Nonesuch labels.

Continuing his
long-standing interest in computer music, he is currently working on
a new piece commissioned by Ircam for large chamber ensemble with
real-time audio signal processing, and computer controlled light. He
recently collaborated with Miller Puckette and Vibeke Sorensen on the
creation of a system for networked, real-time computer graphics and
music, supported by a three year grant from the Intel Research Council.

In 1981, Mr.
Steiger co-founded the California EAR Unit, serving as artistic
director through 1985 and since as principal guest conductor. Steiger
has also conducted the Arditti Quartet, Aspen Chamber Ensemble,
CalArts Twentieth-Century Players, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music
Group, New York New Music Ensemble, Sonor, and Ensemble Sospeso. Mr.
Steiger was a member of the Faculty of California Institute of the
Arts from 1982 through 1987, and is currently a Professor in the
Music Department at the University of California, San Diego, where he
served as department chair from 1992 through 1996.

Morton
Subotnick

Morton
Subotnick is one of the United States' premier composers of
electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and
other media, including interactive computer music systems. Most of
his music calls for a computer part or live electronic processing;
his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs
in the history of the genre.

The work which
brought Subotnick celebrity was Silver Apples of the Moon. Written in
1967 using the Buchla modular synthesizer (an electronic instrument
built by Donald Buchla utilizing suggestions from Subotnick and Ramon
Sender), this work contains synthesized tone colors striking for its
day and a control over pitch that many other contemporary electronic
composers had relinquished. Commissioned by Nonesuch Records and
written in two parts to correspond to the two sides of an LP, Silver
Apples marked the first time an original large-scale composition had
been created specifically for the disc medium. The record was an
American bestseller in the classical music category, an extremely
unusual occurrence for any contemporary concert music at the time.
The next eight years saw the production of several more important
compositions for LP, realized on the Buchla synthesizer: The Wild
Bull (1967), Sidewinder (1970) and Four Butterflies (1971).

In the late
1970s, Subotnick developed the "ghost" box, an electronic
device consisting of a pitch and envelope follower for a live signal,
an amplifier, a frequency shifter and a ring modulator, which allowed
sophisticated control over real-time electronic processing of a live
performance. Two Life Histories (1977) was the first piece involving
an electronic "ghost" score; the bulk of Subotnick's output
for the next six years was devoted to compositions involving
performers and ghost scores. Some of the more notable works in the
series include Liquid Strata (piano)(1977), Parallel Lines (piccolo
accompanied by nine players)(1978) and The Wild Beasts (trombone and piano)(1978).

Subotnick
reached the apex of live electronic processing in his work Ascent
Into Air (1981), written for the powerful 4C computer at IRCAM. In
this work, live performers control the computer music-the reverse
situation of the "ghost" score compositions. Subotnick's
recent works utilize computerized sound generation, specially
designed software Interactor and "intelligent" computer
controls which allow the performers to interact with the computer technology.

In addition to
music in the electronic medium, Subotnick has written for symphony
orchestra, chamber ensembles, theater and multimedia productions. His
most recent works include Jacob's Room (1993), a multimedia opera
directed by Herbert Blau with video imagery by Steina and Woody
Vasulke and featuring Joan La Barbara; Return (1986), commissioned to
celebrate the return of Halley's Comet; and The Double Life of
Amphibians (1984), a collaboration with director Lee Breuer and
visual artist Irving Petlin, utilizing live interaction between
singers, instrumentalists and computer.

Currently,
Subotnick co-directs both the composition program and the Center for
Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) at the
California Institute of the Arts. He tours extensively throughout the
U.S. and Europe as a lecturer and composer/performer.

Robert
Sutherland

Robert
Sutherland is music librarian at the Metropolitan Opera and a board
member of the Major Orchestra Librarians Association.

Dan
Trueman

Dan Trueman is
active as a composing performer on both the 6-string electric violin
and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. His duo Trollstilt (with
guitarist Monica Mugan) recently completed its first CD of original
tunes, inspired by his activities as a traditional Hardanger fiddler.
His compositions have been performed by the Brentano, Cassatt and
Amernet string quartets, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and others. As an
improviser, he has performed throughout the Northeast and in Europe
with Interface, an electronic improvisation duo (with Curtis Bahn).
He has been active as an experimental instrument designer, and has
built (with Perry Cook) sensor bows, spherical speakers, and, most
recently, the Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array (BoSSA).

Mr. Trueman
has a degree in physics from Carleton College (where he studied
composition with Phillip Rhodes), an M.M. in composition from the
College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati (where he studied with
Allen Sapp and Brad Garton), and has recently completed a Ph.D. in
composition at Princeton University where he worked with Paul Lansky,
Steve Mackey, Paul Koonce, and Louis Andriessen. He currently works
at the Columbia University Computer Music Center.

Martin
Verdrager

Martin
Verdrager has served as artistic administrator to the Aspen Music
Festival, Festival Casals, and the National Symphony Orchestra in
Washington, D.C.; and most recently he as artistic advisor to the New
York Chamber Symphony. Mr. Verdrager has developed and contributed to
many programs including the National Symphony's intra-seasonal
festivals featuring Latin Music, Percussion, Jazz, and Beethoven;
lecture series, chamber music presentations, and the Aspen's
Festival's contemporary music programs. He teaches music history at
The Juilliard School, where he has served on the faculty beginning in
1968. In New York, he performed as a contrabassonist with numerous
metropolitan area orchestras and ensembles, including several seasons
with the New Jersey Symphony where he was the personnel manager. Mr.
Verdrager is a graduate of New York High School of Music and Art and
The Juilliard School.

David
Wessel

David Wessel
is the Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies,
UC Berkeley. His interests include interactive composition and
performance, analysis and synthesis of sound, music perception and
cognition. He studied mathematics and experimental psychology at the
University of Illinois, and received a doctorate in mathematical
psychology from Stanford in 1972.

Mr. Wessel's
work on the perception and compositional control of timbre in the
early 70's at Michigan State University led to a musical research
position at IRCAM in Paris in 1976. In 1979 he began reshaping the
Pedagogy Department to link the scientific and musical sectors of
IRCAM. In 1985 he established a new IRCAM department devoted to the
development of interactive musical software for personal computers.
In 1988 he began his current position as Professor of Music at the
University of California, Berkeley where he is Director of CNMAT. He
is particularly interested in live-performance computer music where
improvisation plays an essential role.

Carol
Wincenc

Carol Wincenc
is one of today's international stars of the flute and has appeared
as a soloist with major orchestras around the world. Deeply committed
to expanding the flute repertoire, Wincenc has premiered works
written for her by many of today's most prominent composers. Her
premieres include a flute concerto written for her by 1993 Pulitzer
Prize-winner Christopher Rouse premiered with the Detroit Symphony in
1994 and recorded on Telarc with the Houston Symphony conducted by
Christoph Eschenbach. She gave the world premiere of Gorecki's
Concerto-Cantata at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw in 1992 and has also
commissioned and premiered concerti by Peter Schickele, Joan Tower,
Paul Schoenfield and Tobias Picker, who composed a double concerto
for her and soprano Barbara Hendricks entitled The Rain in the Trees,
which was inspired by the rainforest poems of W.S. Merwin.

Mark
Wingate

Mark Wingate
composes and teaches electroacoustic music in Austin, Texas. His
music has been performed at numerous festivals in North America and
Europe and has garnered awards such as the Stockholm Electronic Arts
Award (Sweden, 1992) and the Prix de la musique
électroacoustique Caractère (Bourges, France, 1996).
Mr. Wingate has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission
(USA), the University of Texas, and the NEA (National Endowment for
the Arts, USA).

Randall
Woolf

Randall
Woolf studied composition privately with David Del Tredici and
Joseph Maneri at Harvard. His works have been performed at Bang on a
Can, Tanglewood, the D'Avant-Garde festival, and elsewhere. In 1990,
he was commissioned by Tanglewood for an orchestral work, White Heat,
for the 1990 Festival of Contemporary Music, where it was premiered,
conducted by Oliver Knussen. His works have been performed by
Kathleen Supove, twisted tutu, the Kronos Quartet, Robert Black,
Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Marimolin, and others. Mr. Woolf's recent
commissions include works for the Edmonton Chamber Symphony, Basso
Bongo, David Leisner, and American Baroque. He has received grants
and awards from the National Institute/Academy of Arts and Letters,
Jerome Foundation, US West, and The National Orchestral Association.